From: »Q« on 30 Jun 2010 21:55 In <news:Xns9DA729E02A325bearbottoms1gmaicom(a)news.albasani.net>, Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote: > Dustin Cook <bughunter.dustin(a)gmail.com> wrote in > news:Xns9DA6D5EDD1EBFHHI2948AJD832(a)69.16.185.247: > >> There are many varieties of server software to serve different > >> forms of data. > > > > Yea, I remember explaining to you recently how I could get email > > without using the web. :) > > Yeah, by sending email to yourself. A lot of us get e-mail from all over the world without using the web. That's been going on for decades. Wait, were you on the web before it was called the web? Back when it was called a bulletin board system and shopping was scarce?
From: fdgfdsgsdfgdfsg on 1 Jul 2010 14:55 �Q� said the following on 2010-07-01 03:55: > A lot of us get e-mail from all over the world without using the web. > That's been going on for decades. I've never used the web for e-mail. No point in doing so.
From: Dustin Cook on 1 Jul 2010 21:39 Gunnar Gren <gg(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in news:4c2d3e36$0$1046$afc38c87 @read01.usenet4all.se: > Den 2010-07-02 skrev Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com>: >> fdgfdsgsdfgdfsg <sdfgsdgsdfg(a)kdsfhgdsahgdsahgfd.tld> wrote in >> news:4c2ce49b$0$1041$afc38c87(a)read01.usenet4all.se: >> >>>�Q� said the following on 2010-07-01 03:55: >>> >>>> A lot of us get e-mail from all over the world without using the web. >>>> That's been going on for decades. >>> >>> I've never used the web for e-mail. No point in doing so. >>> >> >> Well, pigeons bring me most of mine. > > Good for you. When e-mail started to be used in the mid 70's we > stopped with that form of delivery. > In the 90's Sir Tim Berners Lee got a wonderful idea, the web or www. > > Forgetting BBS based email systems and uucp systems; they existed before the 90s. :) -- I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Damn it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What did you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?
From: Dustin Cook on 2 Jul 2010 14:40 Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote in news:Xns9DA931C02F725bearbottoms1gmaicom(a)news.albasani.net: > Dustin Cook <bughunter.dustin(a)gmail.com> wrote in > news:Xns9DA8DC8EEA10BHHI2948AJD832(a)69.16.185.247: > >> Gunnar Gren <gg(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in >> news:4c2d3e36$0$1046$afc38c87 @read01.usenet4all.se: >> >>> Den 2010-07-02 skrev Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com>: >>>> fdgfdsgsdfgdfsg <sdfgsdgsdfg(a)kdsfhgdsahgdsahgfd.tld> wrote in >>>> news:4c2ce49b$0$1041$afc38c87(a)read01.usenet4all.se: >>>> >>>>>�Q� said the following on 2010-07-01 03:55: >>>>> >>>>>> A lot of us get e-mail from all over the world without using the >>>>>> web. That's been going on for decades. >>>>> >>>>> I've never used the web for e-mail. No point in doing so. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Well, pigeons bring me most of mine. >>> >>> Good for you. When e-mail started to be used in the mid 70's we >>> stopped with that form of delivery. >>> In the 90's Sir Tim Berners Lee got a wonderful idea, the web or www. >>> >>> >> >> Forgetting BBS based email systems and uucp systems; they existed >> before the 90s. :) >> >> > > You needed an Internet connection Dustin. You know, a phone line and > modem. Since you use a closed system, you can't get email from me, or > anyone else who isn't on your closed system. An internet connection to dial up a BBS? What drugs are you on? -- I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Damn it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What did you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?
From: Gordon Darling on 2 Jul 2010 14:57 On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:48:02 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote: >>> You needed an Internet connection Dustin. You know, a phone line and >>> modem. Since you use a closed system, you can't get email from me, or >>> anyone else who isn't on your closed system. >> >> An internet connection to dial up a BBS? What drugs are you on? >> > Please, you are showing your ignorance. And old addage says, "keep your > words soft and sweet, in case you have to eat them." > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system Originally BBSes were > accessed only over a phone line using a modem, but by the early 1990s > some BBSes allowed access via a Telnet, packet switched network, or > packet radio connection. "You needed an Internet connection Dustin". Idiot! -- ox·y·mo·ron n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works.
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